Seeing was better, decided to try out the ASI174MC on the RC6, this is a two-panel stitch. Feel free to click it.
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, K3x1, Reg5, PS.
Seeing was better, decided to try out the ASI174MC on the RC6, this is a two-panel stitch. Feel free to click it.
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC on RC6, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB VNG in FCdeb, K3x1, Reg5, PS.
Seeing was bad, not much chance of imaging galaxies or nebulae, so I went for the Moon instead:
Note to self: ZWO ASI174MC, undebayered raw in FC, debayer RGGB in FCdeb, K3x2, Reg5, PS.
I thought that my recent unscheduled stay in hospital would mean missing this morning's ISS Solar Transit, but I was let out yesterday after only 10 days.
There were hardly any gaps in the cloud cover, but I got set up anyway. Luckily, a small gap appeared at just the right time and for just long enough to get the job done. The recently-acquired ZWO ASI174MC made light work of capturing full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS.
Here's a clip, slowed to 4 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.
And here's a cropped stack of the ISS. I think that it's a reasonable first effort:
At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.
It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019.
It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a recently-acquired second-hand camera with a recently-acquired second-hand PC and a recently-acquired new SSD. Being able to record full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi files at 160 FPS with no skipped frames and no write-lag is a real improvement which should be useful for capturing ISS Transits:
Still wading through the backlog of astro-data that I'd been meaning to either process or bin.
Here's another result from way back in November last year, I think it's much better than my similar images from 2008 and 2017:
M45 - The Pleiades, in the constellation of Taurus. 2nd November 2018.
Subs: 25 light @ 300s, 50 dark frames, 50 bias frames.
QHY10 on the C80 ED-R Frac, guided with PHD.
I seem to have plenty of time on my hands, so instead of wasting it I've been wading through the backlog of astro-data that I'd been meaning to either process or bin.
Here's the first pic from way back in November last year:
NGC 2264 Area, 2nd November 2018.
Subs: 27 light @ 300s, 50 dark frames, 50 bias frames.
QHY10 on the C80 ED-R Frac, guided with PHD.
There's a lot going on there, so I think I'll be giving it a lot more attention with a bigger scope when I get through the current treatment. There's the Cone Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster, the Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula - see the NGC 2264 Wikipedia page for a what's what and where.